Orelore’s Divine Hierarchy is an enemy supplement for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition that adds more celestial lore, angel types, and other information about the neglected celestials for use in games.
Base D&D only has like 3 different types of angels, so here’s a bunch more angels. Each angel type is typically a paragon of some virtue or value, and each also has a distinctive job to further the gods’ goals and influence throughout the multiverse, but usually find themselves in the material plane.
Angels act as messengers and servants of the gods, and are all of a lawful alignment. While most are lawful good, some angels are sent by the gods to be destroyers, and can be interpreted as evil depending on who stands on the receiving end.
Angels are vassals of their gods, and serve their needs without question. Some angels (especially those in higher choirs) either have a very limited free will, or none at all. To that end, most cannot be corrupted or turned away from their gods.
Angels who spend a majority of their time on the material and lower planes are more vulnerable to its influence and corruption. An angel corrupted by such an influence will surely act upon it, and are swiftly exiled from their upper plane of origin should attempts of absolving prove ineffective.
Angels treat traitors very harshly, but rarely seek them out unless they are deemed to be “tarnishing their name”, in which case retribution is swift, decisive, and merciless.
Aasimar are humans who have been touched by the influence of the upper planes, whether directly as an angel’s offspring to a human, or of those given power from the upper planes. Aasimar do not occupy a rank in the divine hierarchy, having been deemed too “human” to properly serve such a duty, though their dream connection to an Angel gives them a connection to the domain of the gods. Watching over individuals falls in the domain of the Third Choir.
The Upper Planes, however, are always eager to spread their influence to the planes below, and see Aasimar as an easy, yet unreliable way of doing so. It is important to state that this distance comes from a place of caution, not cruelty.
The Angelic Hierarchy is divided into 3 “Choirs” of angels: